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    Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue Are Still Thriving

    Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue have pulled the ultimate Uno reverse once again. If you don’t remember who they are, they’re the exes of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes — the two Good Morning America co-hosts whose flirty on-air banter turned into a full-blown love affair. After the scandal rocked the morning news world, Fiebig and Shue reportedly turned to one another for comfort and ended up in a relationship themselves. You can’t make this stuff up. While Robach and Holmes are still together — and hosting their podcast, Amy and T.J. — the same appears to be true for Fiebig and Shue. Apparently, the couple has taken their relationship to the next level and have moved in together, a source told Us Weekly. “It’s not revenge,” the insider said. “It’s real.” I, truthfully, am ecstatic and hope they live happily ever after. But don’t expect to hear wedding bells any time soon. “Marriage is a big step, so they’re cautious and careful because they got hurt the last time,” the source continued. “It’s more important for them to just be in love, live together, travel and enjoy each other.” Love that for them.

    Belly, the puppy born without arms, is the most beloved dog on the internet right now

    Belly, a tiny tan Chihuahua dog born without arms, has quickly become TikTok’s newest obsession. Despite her disability, Belly is full of life, rolling around, snuggling with her foster mom, and even learning to use a tiny mobility scooter. Her journey, documented by foster mom Hannah Sand (@hannah_sand24) in 34 TikTok videos to date, has captivated millions, with fans declaring their love for the little pup in viral videos. Meet Belly: The dog with no arms Belly first appeared on TikTok on Feb. 13, 2025, in a video by her mom Hannah Sand. The puppy caretaker adopted her from Rags to Riches Animal Rescue in Tampa, FL, along with her three foster brothers. The other pups are from a different litter, with Belly the chihuahua being the odd one out for more than one reason. @hannah_sand24 I only have Belly until Monday and she goes back to the rescue for vet appointments. #puppies #fosterpuppy #fostermom ♬ original sound - hannah_sand24 "Belly was born without her two front legs," says Sand in the introduction video. "And she's so tiny. I don't even know how to hold you." As a disabled dog and a massive cutie pie, Belly gets a lot of special treatment, including a mobility device. Sand first demonstrated the wheelchair, which she made herself out of common materials, on Feb. 17. Later, Sand tried adding two more wheels for stability, but it turned out to be too big for the tiny puppy. On Feb. 27, she introduced a new wheelchair, made by a man named Jeff, which seemed to work out better for Belly. When she's not practicing with the mobility device, Belly loves to squirm around on Sand's chest in bed and bite at her fingers in between getting belly rubs until she passes out. Sand demonstrated this for fans in her most viral video, gaining over 9.5 million views in one week, as well as over nine million likes. @hannah_sand24 This is what Belly’s nights consist of. She plays on my chest until she puts herself to sleep nuzzled in my neck? @Rags to Riches Animal Rescue #rescuedog #fosterpuppy #puppy #puppytiktok ♬ original sound - hannah_sand24 TikTok can't get enough of Belly Few social media posts get as much love as videos of a dog without arms, and Belly is no exception. The number of people in love, crying, and declaring that they're willing to die for this little pup numbers well into the thousands with each post. "I wouldn't get anything done because I'd be kissing all over that baby," said one user responding to her most viral video. "She's so precious. God bless her."

    ‘When the chile is tea but the finna is gag’—What does ‘What the chile’ mean and why is it all over TikTok?

    A new internet phrase is making the rounds on TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), confusing some and cracking others up: "What the chile." The phrase appears to be a reaction to the chaotic overuse of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and drag slang online, where terms like "finna," "tea," and "gag" get mashed together into near-nonsense. While ‘what the chile’ is often used to poke fun at people misusing AAVE, it's also emerging as part of the evolving lexicon of gay internet lingo, similar to how "slay the house down boots" and "spill the tea" crept into the mainstream lexicon. Many of these TikTok videos state "When the chile is tea but the finna is gag, sis im dead as a chile" or some variation of this Mad Libs jargon nonsense. At least a few commenters inevitably respond with "what the chile." What is a 'chile'? Chile is an AAVE term from the southern regions of the U.S. that means "child." For many generations, Black Americans, especially in or from the South, have used the word "chile" as a term of endearment. People may use it to refer to actual children or anyone younger than them or as a general exclamation, such as "whew, chile!" Although some folks may claim that "chile" came from stan culture, it appeared in the 1978 film The Wiz via the song "You Can't Win" by Michael Jackson and The Four Crows. Marshall Mathers, better known today as Eminem and the source of the term "stan," was only six years old that year. Ok, so what does 'what the chile' mean? Phrases like "what the chile" and "when the chile is tea but the finna is gag" appear to be mocking heavy and inaccurate usage of popular slang terms by taking random AAVE words and mixing them into nonsense. The first use of "what the chile" by itself still up on X comes from user @dalsojoshi, who tweeted it on Nov. 14, 2021. She explained that Black folks use it to mock others who attempt to wield AAVE but don't know what they're doing.

    ‘She even took her glasses off’: Everyone’s obsessed with the little girl who yearns to be Amish

    The internet unlocked a new main character — the anti-iPad kid. Meet the little girl whose dream of becoming Amish came true when her aunt sent her some authentic Pennsylvania Dutch garb.  “I got my own Amish dress!” she shouts with delight, pulling a long, floral dress with capped sleeves out of the packaging. Smash cut to: The girl sitting fully outfitted in Amish regalia, including the bonnet.  “Can we turn off all of the lights since they don’t have any electricity?” she asks. She then proceeds to do exactly that. (“Your girl's new hobby is saving you money,” writes @nicolelynnet). @emalee.w @Ash your days a numbered ? @battleboxhost #amish #daughter #auntie #fyp #fypシ ♬ original sound - Dami The 30-second video, which was posted by user @emalee.w earlier this week has been viewed over 27 million times and is tickling TikTok users to no end. @tprez writes “She got into character IMMEDIATELY.” “Remember that year you got an Amish dress for your birthday and made us all sit in the dark?” jokes @alora__rose. @milky writes “I looove when kids have a specific hyper fixation” and @estrella adds “every baddie has a cult hyperfixation.”    Yearning for simpler times TikTok has collectively agreed that in the era of middle school Drunk Elephant hauls, it’s great to see a kid just being a kid. “She’s already sick of the modern world,” writes Adam. “I’m with u girl.” And Ki points out this hobby has potential for the rest of the family. “You’re gonna wake up in the am and she gonna be wearing that making breakfast.” Since Emalee’s video went viral, she has posted a series of follow-up videos. In one, she asks her daughter what she plans to tell her teacher about her new look. @emalee.w Conversations with our Amish girl ❤️ #amish #fyp #fypシ #daughter ♬ original sound - Emalee “I might be Amish,” her daughter responds. (“Me that night they turned tiktok off” jokes @adriannnna22 in response.) In the same video, the little girl says she wants to go to Amish school but “I can’t go to Amish school in the middle of the year.” In another, Emalee and her daughter experiment with a butter churner sent by a friend.  “Get these Sephora kids using Glow Recipe off my For You Page,” decrees influencer Ken Eurich. “From now on, I only wanna see kids cosplaying as Amish. That’s it. That’s my favorite genre.” The internet is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter here to get the best (and worst) of the internet straight into your inbox. Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post ‘She even took her glasses off’: Everyone’s obsessed with the little girl who yearns to be Amish appeared first on The Daily Dot.

  1. James Bond by Amazon isn’t a bad thing – we could finally get an update to the groundbreaking GoldenEye 007

    Some fans are up in arms about the corporate behemoth taking over the franchise. But I’ll wade through any amount of spin-offs for another crack at the best multiplayer game of the 90s The year 2025 is shaping up to be a corker, isn’t it? It’s all happening: bird flu is back, we’re getting tariffs on everything, Russia has twinned with the US, and it seems there are more Nazis around than there were last month. People are even turning on Ryan Reynolds, for crying out loud. But it’s going to be OK. Because Amazon now has creative control over James Bond. Continue reading...

    A Ranger in Vietnam Remembers

    Some of the Team Leaders were more “aggressive” than others. For some reason, Team 4 always had a Team Leader the “aggressive” ones called NUTS. Of the first four Team Leaders of Team 4, three are members of the Ranger Hall of Fame. We always seemed to get more than our share of action. My guess would be that we came under fire about 60% of the time. Usually, we were engaged with about a platoon-sized force or smaller. The largest force my team ever took on was an NVA company. It was the one and only time we were seen before we wanted to be. The 9th ID had just arrived in RVN and was convoying from the port at Vung Tao to their new base camp at Bear Cat. Someone very high up decided that snipers were going to be a problem, so they sent all of our teams out along each side of the highway, along likely infiltration routes. All of the 173rd LRRPs received a big laugh out of this because we all knew no self-respecting VC or NVA trooper would waste any time on a bunch of ‘leg’ cherries. We set up on our trail, with my partner Butch and me on the left about two meters off the trail. The alpha team leader, Ricca, and the point man, Moya, were on the right – about twenty meters from us. The team leader, Jake, and the radiotelephone operator (RTO) Bum were about ten meters off the trail in the middle. This was our normal ambush set up, but none of us were being particularly careful. Jake was messing with the signal operation instructions (SOI), making up the morning situation report (SITREP), and didn’t see Ricca signal, but I did. I nudged Butch and whispered “Company” as I slid the selector switch on my rifle from safe to semi-automatic. A lone VC comes “Diddy Bopping” down the trail with an M1 carbine at the ready when he sees Jake moving, sending out our SITREP. As he was turning to take Jake, I put three rounds in his chest as Ricca put three rounds in his back. He went down like a whore on payday, and as I looked behind him on the trail, I could see columns of two in NVA uniforms moving off the trail. All hell broke loose with rounds flying everywhere, I remember seeing Bum, hiding behind a small tree (about four inches in diameter) and chunks of the tree flying off next to his head. Then came the lull in the fight when everybody changes magazines and that was our time to execute or immediate action drill. Jake yells “LETS GO” so we all heaved a frag, blew our claymores, and Ricca and Moya came flying past us like the wind. Jake and Bum fired a few rounds to cover them and then took flight past us as we put down covering fire. Now it’s Butch and I’s turn; it’s weird how fast you can move with a 70-pound ruck on your back – given the proper motivation. As we were running straight through the jungle, we could hear them behind us and off to the left, cutting off our path to the extraction landing zone (LZ). Jake changed our path to the right to put more room between the flankers and us. I yelled to Jake that they were right behind us (we had to crash through the jungle, they could run in the trail we left), so Jake makes a sharp 90-degree right turn, runs twenty meters, and stops. This is a drill we had practiced many times and had used well before. The first five NVA that came around the corner in our back trail disappeared in a hail of bullets and frags. So much for ‘Charlie’ trying to overtake us from behind. We were still cut off from the closest LZ and now we could hear the ones who were behind us, moving to our right. Well, they couldn’t move through the jungle any better than we could, so now it became a foot race to another LZ. After a 2,000 meter dead sprint through the jungle carrying 70-pound rucks in 110-degree heat with 98% humidity, Butch goes down like he’s shot but I don’t see any blood. I yelled to Jake and turned Butch over, but still no blood. Butch looks at me and wheezes, “I can’t do it, leave me”. About that time Jake snatches him up by the collar with one hand, strips off his ruck and LBE, and tells him in the most menacing whisper I’ve ever heard, “What Charlie could do to you ain’t shit compared to what I’m going to do to you if you don’t start running right NOW.” I took his ruck and Bum grabbed his LBE, and off we ran. Another 1000 meters and we came across an LZ big enough to get a slick into and out of, so we spread out in the wood line while Jake talked to the slick pilot. The bum had already called in our code word, “TIMBER” which meant “We’re all fucked up, come get us quick,” while we were still running. Jake had Moya and I both take out the same color smoke and told the pilot that we were going to throw smoke and run, to have the gunships suppress the smoke. We saw the slick coming in, Jake gave the signal, and we popped smoke and ran out onto the LZ as fast as we could. Just as the slick came in, the gunships opened up on the wood line behind us. Moya was always the first man on and his job was to count noses to make sure no one got left behind. Ricca was behind him, then Butch, me, Bum (the RTO) and last was Jake. Moya yells “SIX” at Jake who gives the pilot the “thumbs up” and away we go. As we are lifting off, the wood line looks like an ants nest with NVA everywhere, then the gunships make another run and they start to disappear in the rocket explosions. I looked at Butch and screamed, “What was that back there about you couldn’t go on? You could’ve got us all killed, you sorry mother!” Up until that moment, Butch and I had been the best of Best Friends, closer than you could believe…those were the last words I ever spoke to him. He was moved to another team and did fine, but I never spoke to him again. It may seem odd, but I grieved like he was dead.  -Slowpoke This first appeared in The Havok Journal on March 28, 2014. As the Voice of the Veteran Community, The Havok Journal seeks to publish a variety of perspectives on a number of sensitive subjects. Unless specifically noted otherwise, nothing we publish is an official point of view of The Havok Journal or any part of the U.S. government.

  2. Gracie Abrams, the year’s biggest pop star: ‘Trump has only been in office a month, and everybody is more at risk’

    After dodging toxic fans, ‘nepo baby’ jibes and her own projectile vomit, the 25-year-old has just spent eight weeks at UK No 1. She explains why she’s now writing about our dark, uncertain future On a video call from a hotel room in Hamburg, Gracie Abrams is expounding on the virtues of decoupling yourself from social media and living a life offline. “You can literally do so much when you’re not scrolling!” she enthuses. “You can retain more information; everything gets lighter. You have a greater capacity to be more present, to be there for the people in your life, to read a book that’s going to inspire your next album, or go on a hike and breathe air instead of sitting in a dark room on fucking Instagram. I’m doing lots of, like, tactile stuff, staying off social media,” she adds. “Needlepoint and shit like that. I’m just trying to make things … to have some tangible evidence of having lived this year.” Of course, this is nothing the world hasn’t heard before: we’re well used to being told about the benefits of a digital detox. Still, it feels like an intriguing statement coming from Gracie Abrams. For one thing, her single That’s So True spent most of January at No 1 in the UK: it spent most of November and December there as well, took a brief Christmas holiday, then reappeared to beat Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga et al once more. Her album The Secret of Us also reached No 1, and is now enjoying its 18th consecutive week in the Top 20, the kind of longevity only afforded to those artists who have broken through into the upper echelons of pop stardom. Continue reading...

  3. Small Town, Big Story review – Christina Hendricks is terrifying in Chris O’Dowd’s wacky Irish comedy

    Hendricks plays a Hollywood producer who returns to her home town to shoot a show in this whimsical comedy drama – and she is not someone you want to cross How much you enjoy Small Town, Big Story will depend on how you feel first about whimsy and second about genre mashups. If your appetite for both is large, then Chris O’Dowd’s creation (he wrote and directed) has plenty to make you happy. If not, you might find the whole thing a little too underpowered to keep you going. Christina Hendricks, of Mad Men fame, plays hard-bitten TV producer Wendy Patterson. She is in charge of her first big Hollywood production and returns to her tiny home town of Drumbán in Northern Ireland (after 25 years in Los Angeles surrounded by fat-cat bosses and patronising colleagues) to shoot it there. This follows shenanigans by Drumbán’s more colourful and eccentric characters to keep the location scouts from choosing a more tax-advantageous site across the border; these shenanigans include a pig’s head on a stick and a sign saying “Death to the infidels”, which, you know … well, OK, all right. Not even so much from an offence-giving point of view but from an “Is this remotely credible in this particular world?” position. Continue reading...

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